"Service"" and Connery was enticed back to the role of Bond again for ""Diamonds Are Forever"" (1971), Moore did not consider the possibility until it seemed clear that Connery had stepped down as Bond for good. At that point, Moore was approached, and he accepted producer Albert Broccoli's offer in August 1972. In his autobiography, Moore writes that he had to cut his hair and lose weight for the role. Although he resented having to make those changes, he was finally cast as James Bond in ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). Moore then made ""Gold"" (1974), based on a novel"
"in the UK, on 2 October 2008 (). On 16 October 2012, ""Bond on Bond"" was published to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond films. The book, with many pictures, is based on Moore's own memories, thoughts, and anecdotes about all things 007, with some of the profits of the book going to UNICEF. Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He is best known for having played Ian Fleming's fictional British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985. Moore took"
"with Elliott Gould, Streisand's ex-husband), ""The Amityville Horror"" (1979), ""Night of the Juggler"" (1980), and ""High Risk"" (1981). When Roger Moore expressed his desire to leave the role of James Bond, Brolin screen tested for the role in the next film ""Octopussy"" (1983) and was tentatively given the part. Ultimately, however, Moore decided to continue in the series. In 1985, Brolin parodied his near-hiring as James Bond in the film ""Pee-Wee's Big Adventure"". In a film within the film, he merged the characters of Bond and Pee-Wee Herman, the ""real"" version of whom was played by Paul Reubens. He is"
"previous Bond actors, to which viewers had apparently become accustomed. Although the choice of Craig was controversial, numerous actors publicly voiced their support. Most notably four of the five actors who had previously portrayed Bond – Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton, Sean Connery and Roger Moore – called his casting a good decision. George Lazenby has since voiced his approval of Craig also. Clive Owen, who had been linked to the role, also spoke in defence of Craig. The first film, ""Casino Royale"", premiered on 14 November 2006, and grossed a total of US$594,239,066 worldwide, which made it the highest-grossing Bond"
"but was unsure whether it was suitable for a film. Nevertheless, he wanted to show the story to the directors David Lean and Carol Reed for their impressions, although nothing came of Korda's initial interest. In 1955, following the television broadcast of an adaptation of Fleming's earlier novel"" Casino Royale"", Warner Bros. expressed an interest in ""Live and Let Die"", and offered $500 for an option, against $5,000 if the film was made. Fleming thought the terms insufficient and turned them down. ""Live and Let Die"", a film based loosely on the novel starring Roger Moore as Bond, was released"
"classmate of his future Bond co-star Lois Maxwell, the original Miss Moneypenny. During this time there, he developed the Mid-Atlantic accent and relaxed demeanour that became his screen persona. At 18, shortly after the end of World War II, Moore was conscripted for national service. On 21 September 1946, he was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps as a second lieutenant. He was given the service number 372394. He was an officer in the Combined Services Entertainment section and eventually became a captain, commanding a small depot in West Germany. He later looked after entertainers for the armed forces"
"turned crooked camp commandant, asked to guard Greek antiquities desired by the Third Reich, and also guard the collection of archaeologists who are being forced to work to find and recover these objects, but he has other plans for the treasure he guards and for the people under his watch. With the success of his fourth outing as Bond, ""Moonraker"" (1979), Moore followed it with an action film ""North Sea Hijack"" (1980) where Moore played a very un-Bond-like hero, opposite Anthony Perkins. The film was a box office disappointment. Better received was ""The Sea Wolves"" (1980), another World War Two"
"Playing James Bond in all but the first of these, Roger Moore wears Bogner ski wear, as do many other characters in skiing scenes. Bogner launched his first sports apparel collection, ""Formula W"" in 1971. He established an American manufacturing plant in Newport, Vermont in 1973 and debuted a tennis fashion line in 1974. His company introduced a golf fashion line in 1976. When his father died in 1977, Bogner returned to Munich from America to assume control of the company. In 1983, the company introduced a line of sunglasses. As of 2018, his company showed a decline in sales,"
"around the world (garnering the film high honors at the Cannes Film Festival and several BAFTA Award nominations). Sean Connery returned to the role of James Bond in 1971 in ""Diamonds Are Forever"" after George Lazenby filled the role in 1969. Roger Moore succeeded Connery in 1973 with an adaptation of Ian Fleming's ""Live and Let Die"" which was the most successful of his Bond films in terms of admissions. ""Live and Let Die"" was followed by an adaptation of ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" in 1974, which at the time garnered the lowest box office taking of any"
"""Dr. No"". Moore would go on to make another six Bond films; ""From Russia with Love"" (for which he won a BAFTA award), ""Goldfinger"", ""Thunderball"", ""Diamonds Are Forever"", ""Live and Let Die"", and portions of ""The Man with the Golden Gun"", on which he was replaced due to illness by Oswald Morris. In addition, Moore won a BAFTA and an Oscar for his camerawork for 1967's Best Picture, ""A Man for All Seasons"", becoming the first South African to win an Academy Award. He also worked on the 1962 cult classic ""The Day of the Triffids"", ""The Prime of Miss"
"his earliest, Stewart appeared in a television advert for ""Fry's Turkish Delight"", playing a snake charmer. Later, he was an extra in films and did stunt work. He would become one of the top black actors and stuntmen in Britain. Possibly his earliest role was an uncredited one, playing a slave in the 1959 film, ""The Mummy"". In 1973, he played the part of Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" starring Roger Moore. Having not returned to Jamaica where the film was being shot for many years, Stewart suffered in the heat and couldn't believe"
"Roger Moore had expressed a desire to retire from the role of James Bond. His original contract had been for three films, which was fulfilled with ""The Spy Who Loved Me"". Subsequent films were negotiated on a film-by-film basis. Given his reluctance to return for ""Octopussy"", the producers engaged in a semi-public quest for the next Bond, with Timothy Dalton being suggested and tests being filmed with both Michael Billington and James Brolin. However, when the rival Bond production ""Never Say Never Again"" was announced, the producers re-contracted Moore in the belief that an established actor in the role would"
"that the great lover James Bond can't get to first base with this woman because she was so obsessed with avenging her parents' death. Nothing was ever done with it. It was as if the director didn't feel there was a love story there at all."" Roger Moore had originally signed a three-film contract with Eon Productions, which covered his first three appearances up to ""The Spy Who Loved Me"". Subsequent to this, the actor negotiated contracts on a film-by-film basis. Uncertainty surrounding his involvement in ""For Your Eyes Only"", considering his age, led to other actors being considered to"
"to whom Ian Fleming personally wanted. Reportedly, Fleming favoured actor Richard Todd. In his autobiography ""When the Snow Melts"", Cubby Broccoli said Roger Moore had been considered, but had been thought ""too young, perhaps a shade too pretty."" In his autobiography, ""My Word Is My Bond"", Moore says he was never approached to play the role of Bond until 1973, for ""Live and Let Die"". Moore appeared as Simon Templar on the television series ""The Saint"", airing in the United Kingdom for the first time on 4 October 1962, only one day before the premiere of ""Dr. No"". Ultimately, the"
"of the funding for the Bond films, fell into financial difficulties following the box office failure of ""Heaven's Gate"" (1980), bringing uncertainty to the future of the funding. The situation was resolved in May 1981, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired United Artists. Following ""For Your Eyes Only"", Roger Moore had expressed a desire to stop playing James Bond. His original contract had been for three films, a requirement fulfilled with ""The Spy Who Loved Me"". Subsequent films had been negotiated on a film-by-film basis. The producers engaged in a semi-public quest for the next actor to play Bond, which would be for"
"1943, usually playing German villain officer, such as in ""We Dive at Dawn"" (1943). He began to have more established roles by the early 1950s, starring in ""The African Queen"" (1951), ""The Red Beret"" (1953) for Albert R. Broccoli, ""Ice Cold in Alex"" (1958), ""The Guns of Navarone"" (1961), ""The Road to Hong Kong"" (1962), ""Lord Jim"" (1965), ""Black Sunday"" (1977), ""The Boys from Brazil"" (1978) and ""Cuba"" (1979). His first role in the James Bond film series was in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in ""From Russia with Love"". From the late 1970s, he played the recurring"
"he also became involved in developing the series ""The Persuaders!"". In 1964, he made a guest appearance as James Bond in the comedy series ""Mainly Millicent"", Moore stated in his autobiography ""My Word Is My Bond"" (2008) that he had neither been approached to play the character in ""Dr. No"", nor did he feel that he had ever been considered. Only after Sean Connery had declared in 1966 that he would not play Bond any longer did Moore become aware that he might be a contender for the role. After George Lazenby was cast in 1969's ""On Her Majesty's Secret"
"that cold-blooded killer type. Which is why I play it mostly for laughs."" In 1987, he hosted ""Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond"". Moore did not act on screen for five years after he stopped playing Bond; in 1990, he appeared in several films and in the writer-director Michael Feeney Callan's television series ""My Riviera"" and starred in the film ""Bed & Breakfast"" which was shot in 1989; and also had a large role in the 1996 film ""The Quest""; in 1997, he starred as the Chief in Spice World. At the age of 73, he played a"
"was in two all-star comedies: 'Sunday Lovers' (1980) which flopped at the box office and ""The Cannonball Run"" (1981) which was a hit. In the latter he spoofs his fame by playing a millionaire so obsessed with Roger Moore that he had had plastic surgery to look like him. It featured an ensemble cast, including Jackie Chan, Burt Reynolds, Dean Martin, Dom DeLuise, Sammy Davis Jr, and Farrah Fawcett. Moore returned for his fifth outing as Bond in ""For Your Eyes Only"" (1981). Following this film he expressed a desire to leave the role, and other actors were screen tested,"
"Dorothy Loudon in ""The Fig Leaves Are Falling"" in 1969. Another Broadway role, that of Gus Hammer in ""The Rat Race"" (1949), kept Nelson away from the movies again, but after it closed, he starred in the dual roles as Chick Graham and Bert Rand in ""The Man with My Face"" (1951). He was the first actor to play James Bond on screen in a 1954 adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel ""Casino Royale"" on the television anthology series ""Climax!"" (preceding Sean Connery's interpretation in ""Dr. No"" by eight years). Reportedly this was considered a pilot for a possible James Bond"
"within the year. US sales, when the novel was released there a year later, were much slower. Following a comic strip adaptation in 1958–59 by John McLusky in the ""Daily Express"", the novel was adapted in 1973 as the eighth film in the Eon Productions Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore as Bond. Major plot elements from the novel were also incorporated into the Bond films ""For Your Eyes Only"" in 1981 and ""Licence to Kill"" in 1989. The British Secret Service agent James Bond is sent by his superior, M, to New York City to investigate"
"I think that's where the films will need to go."" Their first work for Craig as Bond, ""Casino Royale"", was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and received a Four Star review from Roger Ebert, who stated that the film ""has the answers to all my complaints about the forty-five-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of."" However, their followup ""Quantum of Solace"", which was not based on any Ian Fleming work, was criticized because while having ""the right ingredients: plenty of car, plane or boat chases ... spooks, vendettas, and turncoats"", it lacked"
"office. In February 1952, Lorre returned to the United States, where he resumed appearances as a character actor in television and feature films, often parodying his ""creepy"" image. He was the first actor to play a James Bond villain when he portrayed Le Chiffre in a 1954 television adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel ""Casino Royale"", opposite Barry Nelson as an American James Bond referred to as ""Jimmy Bond"". Lorre starred alongside Kirk Douglas and James Mason in ""20,000 Leagues under the Sea"" (1954) around this time. Lorre appeared in NBC's espionage drama ""Five Fingers"" (1959), starring David Hedison, in the"
"Pfeiffer and Worrall agree, thinking that Burton was ""the least likely incarnation"" of Leiter. In 1973 the Bond franchise introduced a new main lead, Roger Moore, who played Bond for the next twelve years in seven films. To play the part of Leiter in ""Live and Let Die"", an old friend of Moore's was chosen, David Hedison. Pfeiffer and Worrall consider that this friendship comes through, with ""genuine chemistry"" between the two. Hedison played the role with an understated charm, although the script did not give Leiter much to do. Raymond Benson thought him miscast, but acknowledged that ""he's the"
"a hiatus, he returned in 1971's ""Diamonds Are Forever"" and later 1983's non-Eon Bond film ""Never Say Never Again"". ""You Only Live Twice"" is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who later directed the 1977 film ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" and the 1979 film ""Moonraker"", both starring Roger Moore. ""You Only Live Twice"" was a great success, receiving positive reviews and grossing over $111 million in worldwide box office. An American NASA spacecraft is hijacked from orbit by an unidentified spaceship. The United States suspect it to be the work of the Soviets, but the"
"In a December 2007 interview, Roger Moore remarked, ""I was only about four hundred years too old for the part."" Moore also stated that, at the time, ""A View to a Kill"" was his least favourite Bond film, and mentioned that he was mortified to find out that he was older than his female co-star's mother. He was quoted saying ""I was horrified on the last Bond I did. Whole slews of sequences where Christopher Walken was machine-gunning hundreds of people. I said 'That wasn't Bond, those weren't Bond films.' It stopped being what they were all about. You didn't"
"long in the tooth"", and in December 2007 admitted that he ""was only about four hundred years too old for the part"". Like Connery, Moore appeared as Bond in seven films; by the time he retired in 1985, he was the oldest actor to play 007 in the Eon series, and his Bond films had earned over at the box office. With the retirement of Roger Moore in 1985, a search for a new actor to play Bond took place that saw a number of actors, including Sam Neill, Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton, audition for the role in 1986."
"portrayed the Bond girl Rosie Carver in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"". In that film, she became the first African American woman to become romantically involved with 007; Trina Parks, who played a nemesis to Bond rather than a love interest in ""Diamonds Are Forever"" (the previous Bond film) is considered to be the first African-American Bond girl. When ""Live and Let Die"" was first released in South Africa, her love scenes with Roger Moore were cut out because it was prohibited by the Apartheid government. She later starred in several 1970s blaxploitation films, including ""Across 110th"
"was ultimately cast to play Bond in ""Live and Let Die"". At the time Moore was an established television actor, known for his performances as Simon Templar in ""The Saint"" and Lord Brett Sinclair in ""The Persuaders!"": in both of which he played a ""charming, debonair, international playboy"". When playing Bond, Moore tried not to imitate either Connery or his previous roles, and screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz fitted the screenplay around Moore's persona by giving more comedy scenes and a light-hearted feel to Bond, an approach that led Raymond Benson to describe Moore's Bond as ""a rather smarmy, eyebrow-raising international playboy"
"Jean Brodie"", ""The Golden Voyage of Sinbad"", ""Orca"", and ""Clash of the Titans"". Moore died in 1987. Ted Moore Ted Moore, (7 August 1914 – 1987) was a cinematographer and camera operator on nearly fifty films, and is probably most famous for his work on seven of the James Bond films in the 1960s and early 1970s. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Fred Zinnemann's ""A Man for All Seasons"". Born in South Africa, Moore moved to Great Britain at the age of sixteen, where he served in the Royal Air Force during World"
"of five candidates (the others being George Lazenby, John Richardson, Hans De Vries and Robert Campbell) auditioning for the role of James Bond, eventually losing out to Lazenby. Anthony Rogers (actor) Anthony Rogers is an English actor known for his role as Sir Dinadan in ""Camelot"" (1967). He began his career with bit parts in British television including the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Sensorites"" and ""The Avengers"" episode ""The Mauritius Penny"". He was later to be seen in Hollywood films such as ""Red Line 7000"" (1965), ""El Dorado"" (1967) and ""Camelot"" (1967). In 1967 LIFE Magazine sent photographer Loomis Dean"
"fan of James Bond he chose 'Bond' and so became Bond-Owen. He went to school at Abbotsford County Secondary school in Ashford from 1980 to 1984 and then on to Spelthorne College until 1986, where he studied Photography. His first film role was as Kevin in ""Confessions from a Holiday Camp"" (1977). Other film appearances included Little Boy in ""Rhubarb Rhubarb"" (1980), Tristram Fourmile in ""George and Mildred"" (1980), and Freddie in ""Lassiter"" (1984) with Tom Selleck. His television roles included Tristram Fourmile in ""George and Mildred"" (1976–1979), ""Park Ranger"" with Richard Gibson (1979), Alan Shaw in ""Airline"" (1982), Peterkin"
"offer to return as Bond. Gavin's contract was still honored in full. According to Roger Moore's ""James Bond Diary"", Gavin also was slated to play Bond in ""Live and Let Die"" (1973), but Harry Saltzman insisted on a British actor for the role and Roger Moore played the role instead. Gavin had been on the Board of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1965. He served one term as Third Vice-President, and two terms as First Vice-President. He was president from 1971-73. According to the SAG website: As Guild President, in 1972, he testified before the Federal Trade Commission on"